referee: Billy 'Kid' McPartlandWith both eyes closed and blood streaming from an old wound, Wolgast staggered to his corner at the end of the sixth round. Cross watched the effects of his gruelling punishment from the opposite corner, smiling grimly as the referee halted the bout.

referee: Billy RocheCross was far too clever for the ex-champion, while he kept dancing away from Wolgast's left hand, he drove home swings and jabs that rocked his head like a ship in a tempest. New York TimesHowever, according to Jack Kincaid, Cross was floored for a nine-count in round six by a left hook.

Newspaper decision for Cross in Milwaukee Free Press; draw in Oshkosh NW (WI)Tillman injured hand in 4th round. Papers outside Wisconsin showed the same split; for instance the Philadelphia Record had Cross winning and the Pittsburgh Post had it as a draw.

A mutual agreement that the contest would be a draw if both men were on their feet at the end of twelve rounds. Barrieau received the decision from the spectators as he had twice knocked down the American.

referee: Dick BurkeMandot outboxed Cross for 8 rounds, flooring him for no-counts in the fourth and fifth rounds. But Cross turned the tide in the ninth with a crushing right that floored Mandot. Joe went down four more times in the ninth and was quickly stopped in the tenth when the towel was thrown in the ring. (from New Orleans Times-Democrat).

referee: Dan Tone"Scarcely, thirty seconds had elapsed
when Cross had been warned for hitting
on the breakaway, and then, as Duffy
clinched and held one of Cross' hands,
Leach deliberately delivered two kidney
punches in rapid succession". -NY Evening Telegram

Consensus nNewspaper win for Cross from New York City newspapers (Jack Kincaid). NOTE: The previously listed fight between Leach Cross and Harry Stone, dated 2/13/12, has been deleted because no proof of its occurrence has been found or has been offered.

referee: Dan ToneCross won the "newspaper decision." (New York Times and Brooklyn Daily Eagle.) However New York newspapers generally saw it as a draw or even as a win for Cross (Jack Kincaid). This was a promotion of the Empire A.C.